Blow Out

Inspectors have already received training in evaluating the critical safety equipment known as blow-out preventers, and are witnessing tests the agency has started requiring of all drillers. ❋ Leslie Eaton (2011)

"It wasn't a blow-out peak, but it was clearly a good solid one," he said during an interview. ❋ Bob Sechler (2011)

But the blow-out preventer—the device used on a rig to stop the release of natural gas – also has to deal with unusual levels of pressure. ❋ Benoit Faucon (2011)

However, the committee, which is chaired by Tim Yeo, the Conservative MP and former environment minister, said that the British regulator should consider requiring all blow-out preventers to have a double, rather than a single, set of blind shear rams, which are supposed to cut through the drill pipe to close off the well in the event of a blow-out. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In a preview of its final report, due next week, the national oil spill commission said systemic management failure at BP, Transocean, and Halliburton caused the blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, and warned that such a disaster would likely recur because of industry complacency. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"You don't have these blow-out games like you used to see." ❋ Laura Stevens (2011)

I remember not long after my mom died, my sister and I had a blow-out fight, unlike any since childhood. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But in Sunday's volatile bus blow-out, the friendship that survived the war over "Tardy for the Party" and an alleged choking reached an end. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Environmentalists had hoped at the time of the BP oil disaster that the blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico would lead to a rethink about the wisdom of pursuing offshore oil in increasingly deeper waters. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The report identified a series of mistakes that, it said, eventually made the blow-out "inevitable." ❋ Unknown (2011)

"BP did not have adequate controls in place to ensure that key decisions in the months leading up to the blow-out were safe or sound from an engineering perspective." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Many of the poor decisions taken on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig before the fatal blow-out on 20 April were taken to save time and money. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Why on earth didn't the EPA require periodic testing on blow-out valves to make sure they stay operational? ❋ Unknown (2010)

His new move, having lost three states in Tuesday night's big blow-out, is to attack Rick Santorum. ❋ William Bradley (2012)

On 11 January, the seven-member commission will publish its full report into the causes of the blow-out, which killed 11 men and spewed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A sumptuous boar blow-out closes Mr. Greene's account, as if, all other approaches falling short, one fail-safe way to comprehend this beast is to eat him. ❋ Lawrence Norfolk (2011)

In its final report, due to be delivered this morning, the oil spill commission will criticise the Obama administration for failing to go far enough to reform the offshore oil industry after the 20 April blow-out, sources briefed on the report said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

BP's Deepwater Horizon only had one set of blind shear rams, which failed to activate, rendering the blow-out preventer – the last line of defence against a major spill – useless. ❋ Unknown (2011)